LSPR 98.04
                       ESTATES—PROBATE


     (a) Estates—Probate Accounts.

     (1) Receipts or cancelled checks in support of final
and intermediate accounts in probate matters shall not
ordinarily be filed with the clerk. Supporting documentation
to accounts shall be supplied to the court as needed to
resolve any objection of an interested party or issue raised
by the court.
Amended effective 9/1/02

      (2)  Final  accounts are to be prepared in charge  and
discharge  form, accounting for all assets received  by  the
personal representative, all credits claimed, and reconciled
to the balance of the assets on hand to be distributed.
Amended effective 9/1/02

     (3) Order for Production of Wills.  Upon filing any
petition showing jurisdictional facts as to the estate of a
deceased person and alleging that it is believed that a will
exists and is in a safe deposit box to which the deceased
had access, any person having control of such safe deposit
box may be directed by court order to open such box in the
presence of the petitioner, and if a document purporting to
be a will of the deceased is found, the custodian of such
safe deposit box shall deliver the same to counsel for the
petitioner for immediate filing or to the clerk of the
court.  The clerk, on demand, and on payment of fees, shall
issue a receipt for the same, attaching a photostatic or a
like reproduction of said will to the receipt.  The fees and
mileage to the custodian for such delivery shall be the same
as those for any witness and payable by the petitioner,
together with expenses incurred.
Amended effective 9/1/02